May 09, 1891

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Features

Photo-Engravings for Newspapers

Experiments for the Artificial Production of Rain

Our Urban Population

An Original Portrait of Columbus

A Toy Bird for Children

An Improved Rainwater Cut-Off

A Cooler for Holding Milk Cans

Large Shipment of American Locomotives to Australia

The Bennett Dredge and Amalgamator

A Hanging Garden and a Model Office Building

By H. C. Hovey

The Father of the Patent Office

Bath Lift for the Sick and Paralyzed

To Inventors - May 9, 1891

Departments

Letters

Correspondence- May 9, 1891

Departments

Recently Patented Inventions- May 9, 1891

Notes and Queries- May 9, 1891

Business and Personal- May 9, 1891

Index of Inventions- May 9, 1891

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